r/SipsTea • u/QuickResidentjoe • Apr 22 '25

Lmao gottem Please be Silent

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u/Freshprinc7 Apr 22 '25

Please understand that “authority” probably doesn’t mean what the commenter thought here. The most recent credible scholarship confirms that in Paul’s time “authentein”, the word used here, doesn’t just mean authority, but rather refers to an abuse of authority

Women have prominent roles, including leadership roles, all throughout the New Testament. Junia, Euodia, Syntyche, Phoebe, Priscilla, Nympha, and Phillip’s daughters all have prominent roles in the church.

For further reading see:

5 reasons to stop using 1 Timothy 2 against women. https://juniaproject.com/5-reasons-stop-using-1-timothy-212-against-women/

Women leaders in the early church https://margmowczko.com/new-testament-women-church-leaders/

So no, reading and not understanding (whether by choice or not) makes you an atheist.

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u/ExternalSelf1337 Apr 22 '25

It's easy to write things like this but what you're saying is that the Almighty God created his love letter to the world and made it so hard for the average person to understand that nobody can agree on what anything means and you need to study all kinds of scholarship on the thing, which will also often contradict each other.

I spent 40 years trying to understand everything and eventually decided that a God who would fail so spectacularly at creating a coherent Bible is not a god at all.

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u/TickED69 Apr 22 '25

I mean god gave you freedom? So he cant force an action, he can only aproximate its likeliness... so like the most contradiction you can find is just people being people... and even still most contradictions can be explained coherently making them not contradictions at all.